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you look at paul ryan's budget for instance. he wants to slash funding to fema, tried on multiple occasions. he also is advancing this really hair-brained idea that was pedalled around a lot by eric cantor last year. where they demand that any disaster-relief funding that the government dolls out after hurricane sandy and the tornado in missouri whatever that has to be offset with budget cuts elsewhere, so they are saying we are going to hold hostage any funding that going to disaster relief unless we can get the other side to cut education national parks whatever else. and these are not cuts that people want to make. so the relief funding is going to get delayed or completely held up. >> wow. >> so every time that there is a natural disaster where funds are needed immediately, congress has to have a big fight over what they are going to cut in order to fund disaster relief. >> yeah. insane. >> they just seems like the height of irresponsibility. >> also if you think about it too, though if you cut this federal funding in what p
you look at paul ryan's budget for instance. he wants to slash funding to fema, tried on multiple occasions. he also is advancing this really hair-brained idea that was pedalled around a lot by eric cantor last year. where they demand that any disaster-relief funding that the government dolls out after hurricane sandy and the tornado in missouri whatever that has to be offset with budget cuts elsewhere, so they are saying we are going to hold hostage any funding that going to disaster relief...
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paul ryan said he wants to offset fema help somewhere else in the budget. >> of course. anything they can do to get rid of the programs they don't like they will. i'm not sure why this is a surprise to anybody. we had a test run with this with eric cantor a year ago. >> yeah now that a hurricane has gone through the week before the election this is top of mind for people. >> it has got to be made top of the mind for people. >> yeah. >> we are sitting in a nation that is now 50/50 to buy think single most important political campaign of my lifetime. if you are going to make paul ryan's budget hostage issue, you have to get out there and do it. >> i feel the problem now is they have a couple of days to think about how to spin this. and i think they know they can't say they would destroy fema so there -- will be some sort of spin -- >> an etch-a-sketch. >> yes. >> then if the president tries to come back he'll get landed on as politicizing this. >> right. but now they are trying to change his perspective from the primary. >> oh of course. they are really good at that. and s
paul ryan said he wants to offset fema help somewhere else in the budget. >> of course. anything they can do to get rid of the programs they don't like they will. i'm not sure why this is a surprise to anybody. we had a test run with this with eric cantor a year ago. >> yeah now that a hurricane has gone through the week before the election this is top of mind for people. >> it has got to be made top of the mind for people. >> yeah. >> we are sitting in a nation...
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paul ryan. mitt romney's presidency is scary enough but should he die if paul ryan is president, it would be scarier than i've ever heard. >> stephanie: rachel maddow. rachel versus carly i'll take that match any time. it was good. she was talking about he's moderate mitt now. rachel was like right and then he picked paul ryan. it shows you exactly where he's going to be, right jacki on any of these issues. we were talking about -- by the way, you and i were talking about some healthcare stuff. >> yes. >> stephanie: a, he wants to voucherize medicare. we all know that. paul ryan. but i was saying mitt romney was on the campaign trail this weekend repeating a lie that i've seen in right wing e-mails is that oh, no doctors a lot of doctors now are turning down patients because they aren't going to take anymore medicare patients because of the cuts to medicare. >> okay. there are no cuts to medicare. i'm not entirely sure how else to say it. there are no cuts to medicare. >> stephanie: can you be a
paul ryan. mitt romney's presidency is scary enough but should he die if paul ryan is president, it would be scarier than i've ever heard. >> stephanie: rachel maddow. rachel versus carly i'll take that match any time. it was good. she was talking about he's moderate mitt now. rachel was like right and then he picked paul ryan. it shows you exactly where he's going to be, right jacki on any of these issues. we were talking about -- by the way, you and i were talking about some healthcare...
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atlas drugged, it's a world where romney and ryan's plans to privatize government becomes a reality. stephan goldstein, the author joins us now. hi stephen. >> good to talk to you. i finished the manuscript about a year ago, and the words i put into the mouth of the people who were -- that is the fictional governor of florida, and the fictional president of the united states after in my book a devastating storm strikes florida -- >> stephanie: yeah. are you psychic, stephen, come on? >> caller: i am. remember on friends daphne moon says i'm psychic, well what happens is florida is destroyed, but in my book things have gotten so bad that is why atlas is drugged -- people have drugged on the notion of free world, it's the corporate states of america and everything is privatized. >> stephanie: there are no more government agencies the national hurricane center has been privatized and because they couldn't make a profit it shut down and no one could follow the hurricane. >> yeah. >> stephanie: this was -- stephen colbert made the comment who better to respond than the state who's infrast
atlas drugged, it's a world where romney and ryan's plans to privatize government becomes a reality. stephan goldstein, the author joins us now. hi stephen. >> good to talk to you. i finished the manuscript about a year ago, and the words i put into the mouth of the people who were -- that is the fictional governor of florida, and the fictional president of the united states after in my book a devastating storm strikes florida -- >> stephanie: yeah. are you psychic, stephen, come...